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GRaBS
Get involved in the GRaBS project!The Green and Blue Space Adaptation for Urban Areas and Eco Towns (GRaBS) project is a network of leading pan-European organisations involved in integrating climate change adaptation into regional planning and development.The project has been co-financed by the European Union's Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and made possible by the INTERREG IVC Programme. Their website will keep you up to date with the GRaBS project activities including study visits, conferences and expert papers. The case for climate change adaptationAtmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations are now at their highest for 3 million years and as a result urban areas are vulnerable to increased temperatures and flooding. Regional spatial planning and urban design can provide solutions that make our communities less vulnerable to these risks. Green infrastructure including gardens, parks, productive landscapes, green corridors, green roofs and walls and blue infrastructure such as water bodies, rivers, streams, floodplains and sustainable drainage systems, play a vital role in creating climate resilient development – a role, which is currently not sufficiently recognised and utilised and lacks integration in mainstream planning. By advancing the knowledge and expertise of partner staff through the GRaBS project, decisions makers, politicians and communities, and regional and local municipalities across Europe will be able to make a more informed and strategic response to climate change adaptation. In the long term communities will reduce their vulnerability to the environmental, social and economic damage related to climate change impacts including extreme temperature increases and flooding incidents. Who Are GRaBSA network of leading organisations involved in integrating climate change adaptation into regional planning and development has been established across Europe in the new Green and Blue Space Adaptation for Urban Areas and Eco Towns (GRaBS) project. The GRaBS project has 14 partners, drawn from eight member states, representing a broad spectrum of authorities and climate change challenges, all with varying degrees of strategic policy and experience. The project will facilitate the much needed exchange of knowledge and experience and the actual transfer of good practice on climate change adaptation strategies to local and regional authorities. The GRaBS project has been made possible by the Interregional Cooperation Programme INTERREG IVC, financed by the European Union's Regional Development Fund. The Programme helps Regions of Europe work together to share experience and good practice in the areas of innovation, the knowledge economy, the environment and risk prevention. EUR 302 million is available for project funding but, more than that, a wealth of knowledge and potential solutions are also on hand for regional policy-makers. For more details visit http://www.interreg4c.eu, and for the DG for Regional Policy see http://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/index_en.htm. |
ObjectivesThe GRaBS Project has four main objectives:
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